‘Leadership’ has now become one of the most over-used terms in school organisation, so much so that it is now difficult to find mentions of ‘management’ and ‘administration’ in school organisation literature. Papers published in Educational Management, Administration and Leadership and Management in Education over the last few years confirm this view. This article argues that although there is a significant overlap between them, leadership, management and administration are different from each other and this should be recognised when talking and writing about school organisation and development, with not all three being subsumed under the banner of ‘leadership’. In particular, the article argues for the re-establishment of management as a major element in the development and training of heads and prospective heads of schools and colleges.

This article analyses the context around overseas sojourning for linguistic and intercultural development at the University of the West Indies, a public university serving the Anglophone Caribbean region. It assesses the affordances and constraints around this activity deriving from a range of geopolitical, sociocultural and institutional forces that bear on how residence abroad for this particular purpose is configured in this particular context. It further identifies a number of factors that currently align in favour of increased valorisation of such experiences as facilitators of socioeconomic and cultural development, such as strategic policy at the regional governance level, diversification of trade partnerships and service provision, or the promotion of experiential learning at the institutional level. The conclusion recommends the establishment of research collaborations with international partners to promote a unique small-states and Caribbean contribution to understandings of the potential socioeconomic and cultural impact of residence abroad for intercultural learning.

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This reading of Carpentier's four 1958 chronicles on Barbados analyzes how they rhetorically enact the skills of intercultural self-positioning that Carpentier had acquired by this mature stage of his journalistic career as an expert Caribbean chronicler but first-time visitor to Barbados. Furthermore, whilst these chronicles at least partially vindicate autochthonous Caribbean cultural expression, this analysis identifies the conspicuous absence therein of any direct engagement with social realities such as the continuing colonial status of Barbados and interrogates these omissions through other critical readings of Carpentier's approach to race and political engagement, and through his response to the Guadeloupian poet St. John Perse. Though Carpentier's fictional oeuvre repeatedly confronts the claims of humankind's theoretical perfectibility through historical progress with those of the subjective ego, his Barbados chronicles exemplify a countervailing tendency to erase sociopolitical contexts from his travel writing in a manner that can be regarded as problematically apolitical.